Believe me, I still can’t believe I got in either. Wharton Essays How do you plan to use the Wharton MBA program to help you achieve your future professional goals? You might consider your past experience, short and long‐term goals, and resources available at Wharton. (500 words) As the world becomes increasingly digitised and technological…
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The Essays That Didn’t Get Me Into The Harvard MBA Program
No, of course I’m not still mad about it. I think I can speak for everyone who applied to Harvard Business School (HBS) last year that we were all thrown off by the radical changes made to the application last year. The new HBS Admissions Director introduced a new set of admission criteria and rewrote…
In Our Backyard, A War Against Monkeys Rages On
7 monkeys vs 2 people, not exactly a fair fight, is it? For the past few months, my weekly calls with my dad have been peppered with tales of his latest escapades with a troop of monkeys in our backyard in Harare. Greystone Park, in Harare’s northern suburbs, is no stranger to encounters with the…
Eating My Way Through Heartbreak – A Collection of Meals for One
Spoiler alert: the grocery list includes wine. Heartbreak is inevitable. As much as we take precautions to prevent it by making promises and concessions, sometimes words are not enough to save a 2.5-year relationship. Seeking comfort in my friends, the same question came up over and over again: ‘What are you going to do with…
Actuellement: Renaissance in Rediscovering Culinary Joys
Life is beautiful. There’s simply no other way to put it: life is beautiful. I feel exuberant, unconquerable, blissful, at peace with myself in this world. Inhaling, I’m going to take a second to latch onto this feeling and wrap my arms tightly around it. Exhaling, I’m radiating this feeling out to you through your…
Why is Leaving a Place I Hate so Hard?
I spent the first 19 years of my life in Harare and in the 5 years since I’ve lived in 5 different cities across 3 different continents. The constant change has repeatedly invoked the question of what it means to call a place home. How do I find comfort in places so far both geographically and culturally from where I grew up? What does hominess mean to me? This piece explores finding home away from home and finding comfort in places that you don’t even like.
Finding Love Around the Table #1: The First Homecooked Dinner Date
A little more than a year ago, I prepared to host someone I’d been dating for 2 months at my apartment for dinner. He would be the first to dine at the new IKEA table I’d painfully spent 2 weeks assembling by myself.
Welcome to the Rest of Your Life: 3 Lessons from My First Year in the Real World
‘welcome to the rest of your life’, and what a welcome it was. losing my first job and an injury that left me unable to walk for 2 months were the overtones in the symphony of the debilitating global economic/political/climatic outlook.
I started writing this piece about life’s setbacks around the 1 year anniversary of my time in the real world (last August) but have invariably delayed because the setbacks did not stop coming. Keri Hilson said it first (and said it best),
#justgetbackupwhenitknocksyoudown, this post is a reminder (to myself more than anyone else) that transitions are tough, tough times never last and to remain confident in your ability to come out on top.
Life Is Oh So Dandy 